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Congress passed the nineteenth amendment in 1919, which granted women the right to vote. This amendment was finally ratified in 1920; which was 72 years after the Seneca Falls Convention. This event was extremely important because it provided women with the right to vote and was a step towards equality.

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In 1920 there was a ban placed on the manufacturing, sale and transportation of alcohol. This was important because it became a big topic of controversy that led to a reform of the amendment being made. This amendment was monumental because it put rest to the immense controversy at the time.

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Congress provided the 17th amendment in 1912 but was later ratified in 1913; it provides people with the right to choose the U.S. senators rather than the legislators. At first, the Senate was against this but more states began to allow voters to nominate senatorial candidates in direct primaries. The seventeenth amendment was important because it gave power to people which improved the democracy of America.

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With lower tariff rates, the federal government had to replace the revenue that tariffs had previously supplied. It was ratified in 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment legalized federal income tax, which provided revenue by taxing individual earning and corporate.

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Washington was  head of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which an all black training school. He faced a lot of opposition and was a very influential man who fought for equal rights. His activism was very important in history because it greatly influenced the equal rights movement.

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W.E.B. Du Bois was an advocate for African American equality. He wrote "The Souls of Black Folk" in order to oppose Washington and state his demands for immediate social and economic equality for African Americans. This was absolutely crucial because it raised awareness about African American equality.

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In 1906, Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act, which halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labelling. Although this act did not ban harmful products outright its requirement of truthful labels reflected the progressive belief. I think that this was a crucial act because it helped out buyers and helped people be safer.

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True to his word, in 1906 Roosevelt pushed for passage of the Meat Inspection Act, which dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created the program of federal meat inspection that was in use until it was replaced by more sophisticated techniques in the 1990s. This was very important because it improved the safety and healthiness of food.

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Suffragist leaders tried three approaches to achieve their objectives. Initially, they tried to convince state legislatures to grant the right to vote to women. After that, women pursued court cases to test the fourteenth amendment; finally, they pushed for a national constitutional amendment to grant women voting rights. This is very important because the strategy helped convince more people support women’s suffrage.

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The recall enabled voters to remove public officials from positions of power by forcing them to face a reelection before the end of their term. This was very important because it meant leaders were not allowed to stay in power for too long and maintained the American democracy.

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This is a bill that originated by the people rather than lawmakers on the ballot. This was an immensely beneficial part of history because it improves the democracy of America.